Superettan facts for kids

Superettan is a professional football league in Sweden. It is the second-highest league for men's football teams in the country. Sixteen clubs compete in Superettan. Teams can move up to the top league, Allsvenskan, or be moved down to Ettan.

The league was started in the year 2000. Before that, Sweden's second-tier football had different names and structures.

How the Superettan Season Works

There are 16 football clubs in Superettan. A season runs from April to October. Each club plays every other club twice. This means they play one game at home and one game away. In total, each team plays 30 games during the season.

At the end of the season, the two teams with the fewest points are moved down to Ettan. Two new teams from Ettan are promoted to Superettan. The third and fourth lowest teams in Superettan play special "play-off" games. They compete against the second-placed teams from Ettan to decide who stays in Superettan.

The top two teams in Superettan get promoted to Allsvenskan, which is Sweden's highest league. The two lowest teams from Allsvenskan are moved down to Superettan. The third-placed team in Superettan also plays a play-off game. They play against the third-lowest team from Allsvenskan for a chance to be promoted.

Watching Superettan on TV

Since 2020, the TV channel Eurosport has shown Superettan matches. They have the rights to broadcast games until 2025. This means fans can watch many exciting matches on TV.

Teams in the 2024 Season

Here are the clubs that played in Superettan during the 2024 season:

Stadiums and Locations

Each team in Superettan plays its home games in a specific stadium. These stadiums have different types of playing surfaces, either natural grass or artificial turf. They also have different capacities, meaning they can hold a certain number of spectators.

• ¹ Correct as of end of 2019 season

Superettan Statistics

Past Winners

Zlatan Ibrahimović scored 12 goals in the first Superettan season to help Malmö FF get promoted.

Many teams have won the Superettan league since it started in 2000. Some teams have even won it more than once! Winning Superettan means a team gets promoted to the top league, Allsvenskan.

Top Goal Scorers

2001 top scorer Daniel Nannskog also went on to become top scorer in Adeccoligaen and Tippeligaen.

Each season, players compete to score the most goals. This table shows the top goal scorers from different Superettan seasons.

Season	Player	Team	Goals
2000	Fredrik Gärdeman	Åtvidabergs FF	14
2001	Daniel Nannskog	Landskrona BoIS	21
2002	Ludwig Ernstsson	Östers IF	18
2003	Göran Marklund	FC Café Opera	23
2004	Stefan Bärlin	Västerås SK	23
2005	Bruno Santos	IFK Norrköping	16
2006	Olof Guterstam Stefan Rodevåg	IF Brommapojkarna Falkenbergs FF	17
2007	Gardar Gunnlaugsson	IFK Norrköping	18
2008	Jonas Henriksson	BK Häcken	19
2009	Marcus Ekenberg Mattias Adelstam	Mjällby AIF Ängelholms FF	19
2010	Linus Hallenius	Hammarby IF	18
2011	Branimir Hrgota	Jönköpings Södra IF	18
2012	Pablo Piñones Arce	IF Brommapojkarna	18
2013	Victor Sköld	Falkenbergs FF	20
2014	Kennedy Bakircioglu	Hammarby IF	17
2015	Fredrik Olsson	Jönköpings Södra IF	17
2016	Shkodran Maholli	Åtvidabergs FF	15
2017	Richard Yarsuvat	Dalkurd FF	17
2018	Andri Rúnar Bjarnason	Helsingborgs IF	16
2019	Erik Björndahl	Degerfors IF	20
2020	Pontus Engblom	GIF Sundsvall	20
2021	Ajdin Zeljkovic	Örgryte IS	18
2022	Viktor Granath	Västerås SK	24
2023	Jesper Westermark	Östers IF	17
2024	Assad Al Hamlawi Kalle Holmberg Dijan Vukojević	IK Oddevold Örebro SK Degerfors IF	14

Top Assists

Tobias Hysén went on to make 34 appearances for the Sweden national team.

Players who help their teammates score goals by passing the ball are said to get "assists." This table shows the players with the most assists each season.

Season	Player	Team	Assists
2001	Pelle Andersson	IF Sylvia	11
2002	Olle Kullinger	Enköpings SK	11
2003	Tobias Hysén	BK Häcken	15
2004	Daniel Westlin	Gefle IF	12
2005	Daniel Nicklasson	GAIS	10
2006	Eirik Dybendal Martin Smedberg-Dalence	IFK Norrköping Ljungskile SK	11
2007	Eirik Dybendal	IFK Norrköping	16
2008	Pavel Zavadil	Örgryte IS	17
2009	Marcus Ekenberg Martin Smedberg-Dalence	Mjällby AIF Ljungskile SK	11
2010	Daniel Bamberg	IFK Norrköping	15
2011	Tobias Nilsson	Falkenbergs FF	12
2012	Denis Velić	Östers IF	11
2013	Niclas Eliasson	Falkenbergs FF	11
2014	Robert Gojani	Jönköpings Södra IF	11
2015	Dženis Kozica	IFK Värnamo	11
2016	Johan Svahn	IFK Värnamo	11
2017	Petar Petrović	IFK Värnamo	12
2018	Diego Montiel	Örgryte IS	14
2019	Gustav Ludwigson	Örgryte IS	9
2020	Samuel Kroon Wilhelm Loeper	Halmstads BK AFC Eskilstuna	11
2021	Wilhelm Loeper	Helsingborgs IF	12
2022	Oscar Pettersson	IF Brommapojkarna	12
2023	Gustav Lundgren	GAIS	12
2024	Adam Bergmark Wiberg	Östers IF	13

Top Goalkeepers

Daniel Örlund is one of only two keepers who has had the top save percentage in two separate seasons.

Goalkeepers are very important for a team's defense. This table shows the goalkeepers with the best save percentages in different seasons. A higher save percentage means they stopped more shots.

Season	Goalkeeper	Club	GP	GA	SV%	CS
2004	Mattias Hugosson	Gefle IF	25	17	85	14
	Daniel Örlund	FC Café Opera	25	25	85	7
2005	Daniel Örlund	AIK	29	25	80	13
2006	Fredrik Persson	Trelleborgs FF	29	13	89	17
2007	Lee Baxter	Landskrona BoIS	12	12	84	3
2008	Kristoffer Nordfeldt	IF Brommapojkarna	29	27	82	12
2009	Mattias Asper	Mjällby AIF	30	19	87	15
2010	Dwayne Miller	Syrianska FC	21	14	82	13
2011	Ivo Vazgeč	Landskrona BoIS Jönköping Södra	25	29	80	7
2012	Zlatan Azinović	Trelleborgs FF	12	19	78	1
2013	Peter Abrahamsson	Örgryte IS	26	31	82	10
	Otto Martler	Falkenbergs FF	28	28	82	14
2014	Alex Horwath	Ljungskile SK	30	25	83	14
2015	Dwayne Miller	Syrianska FC	13	11	79	6
2016	Josh Wicks	AFC United	29	16	86	16
2017	Pär Hansson	Helsingborgs IF	15	15	77	6
	Damir Mehić	GAIS	29	37	77	9
2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024	No data available

Attendance Records

Superettan games attract many fans! In the 2019 season, about 1,632 people on average watched each match. The biggest crowd ever for a Superettan game was 31,074 fans. This happened in 2014 when Hammarby played against Ljungskile. The 2014 season had the highest overall attendance, mostly because of Hammarby's large fan base.

Top Club Attendance

Some clubs consistently draw bigger crowds than others. Here are the clubs that had the best average home attendance each season:

Images for kids

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  Mak Lind was the manager of Norrby IF from December 2017.

See also

In Spanish: Superettan para niños

• Sports attendances
• Allsvenskan